Category: Books

  • Fabrik Jakob Tuggener

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive…

  • From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

    From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

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    From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/the-disappeared.html?currentPage=all Gervasio Sánchez’s book “Disappeared” explores the nightmare of forced disappearance not just in South America but around the…

  • 20 Now: Contemporary Photographers

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie 20 Now: Contemporary Photographers is a book that presents 20 western photographers to South East Asia. From Adam Fuss to David Hilliard’s Panoralic photography, the book shows different approaches and ideas to the medium of contemporary photography.

  • A Brief, Photographic History of Republished Books

    A Brief, Photographic History of Republished Books

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/27/a-brief-photographic-history-of-republished-books/#1 Reprints of older photobooks, commonly known as second editions, have been one way for newer generations of photographers and students of photography to become familiar with and learn from artists who came before them. Books have served me by informing and…

  • Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography

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    Link: Feature Shoot Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape…

  • Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)

    Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)

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    Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip) Eric Tabuchi has just released a new book, FAT, A French American Road Trip, published by Matmos Press in Montreal. It’s a wonderful collection of images that bring humor to the idea of our globalized world, where the homoginization of cultural landmarks via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/02/eric-tabuchi-fat-french-american-trip.html Eric is…

  • A Closer Look — The Place We Live

    A Closer Look — The Place We Live

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    A Closer Look — The Place We Live from the book The Place We Live A few weeks ago my pal Jonathan Blaustein wrote a ” non-review ” of Robert Adams’  The Place We Live ,… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/02/closer-look-place-we-live.html But by God, I can’t stop picking up The Place We Live, and it’s my turn to write…

  • A Closer Look — Is This Place Great Or What

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    A Closer Look — Is This Place Great Or What from  Is This Place Great or What From Aperture and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Is This Place Great Or What by Brian Ulrich is the pub… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/02/closer-look-is-this-place-great-or-what.html From Aperture and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Is This Place Great Or What by Brian…

  • Close Inspection: Magnum Contact Sheets

    Close Inspection: Magnum Contact Sheets

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    Close Inspection: Magnum Contact Sheets No document gives greater insight into how a photographer shoots and edits than a contact sheet—the direct print, from a roll or negatives, where a film … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/01/magnum-contact-sheets.html?currentPage=all No document gives greater insight into how a photographer shoots and edits than a contact sheet—the direct print,…

  • Things I Learned About Self-Publishing, by Self-Publishing by Kramer O’Neill

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    Things I Learned About Self-Publishing, by Self-Publishing by Kramer O’Neill Eric’s Note: I am pleased to have street photographer Kramer O’Neill share in this guest blog post his experiences about self-publishing two of his books. It is an incredibly difficult … via ERIC KIM: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2012/01/things-i-learned-about-self-publishing-by-self-publishing-by-kramer-oneill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EricKimStreetPhotographyBlog+%28Eric+Kim+Street+Photography+Blog%29 I am pleased to have street photographer Kramer O’Neill share in this…

  • Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide

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    Link: Foto8 Pieter Hugo resolved to visit, ‘photographing and contemplating’ the sites of Rwanda’s carnage. The results of that journey are now published as Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide offering, he writes, “a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place.”

  • A by Greg Halpern

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    Link: LPV Magazine A few weeks ago I went to Dashwood books for the first time to pick up three books that I’d eventually giveaway to our 2011 subscribers. While browsing the inventory I found Halpern’s A. There was no way I couldn’t page through it. After I closed the book I decided to buy…

  • New Postcards From America Limited Edition Photography Book

    New Postcards From America Limited Edition Photography Book

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/26/postcards-from-america-the-box-set/#1 The Postcards from America box book, in a signed edition of 500, is available exclusively at www.postcards.magnumphotos.com 

  • Leon Borensztein’s ‘American Portraits’

    Leon Borensztein’s ‘American Portraits’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/13/leon-borenszteins-american-portraits/#1 More often than not, some of the best observers of places are those not originally from there. Leon Borensztein was born in Poland, settled in Israel and emigrated only later in life to the U.S. in 1977. But unlike de Tocqueville…

  • Das Book: The Making Of Weird Sports

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    I’ve got a copy of Weird Sports sitting in the front room of my house and EVERYONE who picks it up, whether they are a photographer or not, loves it. They slowly flip through the pages, laughing hysterically. Definitely recommended. Here’s Sol’s story of putting it together… THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS This past…

  • Review: Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson

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    Conscientious By now, you have probably seen Redheaded Peckerwood being picked the most by the various people (me included) who compiled a “best of 2011” list. As subjective as such lists are, I’d like to point at one very simple fact: In Marc Feustel’s tallying of these lists, the book was picked by 19 out…

  • Moving forward, looking back

    Moving forward, looking back

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    Moving forward, looking back A recent post by Blake Andrews on dead photoblogs has me thinking a lot about life online and off. From 2006 to 2007, I poured a lot of energy into my blog. On my first post, I wrote that I was ‘hu… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/moving-forward-looking-back/ And one commenter,…

  • A Package of Protest

    A Package of Protest

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/29/a-pacakge-of-protest/#1 The recent Protest Box, compiled by the British photographer Martin Parr, just published by Steidl, contains five facsimile reprints of some of the most important books of protest produced within the history of the photobook

  • TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved

    TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/29/the-photo-books-we-loved-in-2011-2/#1 Here LightBox spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by a group of photographers and photography experts from around around the world…. and of course a few from the photo editors of TIME.  From the selection one…

  • THE BEST PHOTO BOOKS OF 2011

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    photo-eye When considering whom to invite for our annual Best Books list, we try to look at all of the diverse corners of the photography world. Of course, we have our regular favorites who are not only staples in the photography community, but offer an incredibly informed and diverse perspective for what makes a stand-out…